Being a Woman Physicist in Austria

摘要

In Austria physics can be studied at six universities in four different cities: Vienna, Graz, Linz, and Innsbruck. At these universities students can enroll for physics, for technical physics (a more industrially oriented study), or for physics teacher education. About 3500 students were enrolled in physics in Austria in the winter 2002/2003 semester (33% for physics, 48% for technical physics, and 19% for physics teacher education). About 21% of these were female. The percentages of female students in the different physics disciplines at the six universities is given in Tables 1 and 2, where it can be seen that the high percentage of females who choose a teacher career is remarkable.